Force Quotes
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To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.
Nikola Tesla
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Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow as a kid – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.
Harry Shearer
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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Virginia Woolf
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
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Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: “Let’s not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . .” His face was impassive. “I never write,” he said.
Bel Kaufman
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Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.
Stewart Rahr
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Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
Michael Chabon
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I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Mother Teresa
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It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.
Benjamin Carson
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Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time.
Stonewall Jackson
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Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.
David Dudley Field II
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla
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People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.
David Rolf
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You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out.
Raymond T. Odierno
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If the only language Mr. Milosevic understands is force, then he will get force.
Javier Solana
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Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
Mother Teresa
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You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
Celeste Ng
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The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
Joshua Foer
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Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.
Ray Bradbury
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And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.
Terence McKenna
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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
Saul Bellow
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
Thomas Carlyle
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Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
Walt Whitman
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When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.
Edward Hallowell